KINDRED SPIRITS

There are few people in life that we truly share everything with. Our closest family and maybe our very dearest friends. They’re relationships that we often take for granted. Sometimes we don’t know the true value of a what we have until someone is no longer with us and our memories have started to fade and we wish that we had taken the time to celebrate life together more; captured more photographs of everyone together.

Think about what you would grab first if you had a house fire? I know I would want to grab the entire china cabinet, the children’s framed artwork and of course the family photographs. A client I recently spent some time with had her country home burn down. Some albums were able to be rescued but everything that was digital and on the computer was lost. They have no record of their family for about 10 years. It’s a huge loss and one that if they’d had professional photographs taken during that time they may have been able to replace with new artwork for their new house’s walls.

It’s a sad fact that life is actually very short. Fatalities happen when we’re least expecting them and if we haven’t taken the time to record our family life in pictures and stories it’s lost forever. We don’t get a second opportunity for a re-do.

You’ve just got to make a date and make it happen. Celebrate your family while you still can.

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

William Martin